Flight Planning

Garmin International announced in a news release on June 7 a number of updates to its FltPlan safety management system (SMS), such as risk/hazard reports that allow flight and ground personnel to more easily report risks they encounter in their flight operations. “The modernized user interface provides a simple step-by-step process to collect essential information […]

How many times has it happened to you? Having your mobile device fall asleep or you need to cycle through to another app in the midst of a big Airport Data download to ForeFlight? The app will now continue to download the charts and data selected when the app shifts to the background, so pilots […]

With Appareo’s latest update (5.17.0) to their Stratus Insight EFB app, the company is announcing the addition of a new “Relevant Traffic” feature to the app, which allows a user to easily filter ADS-B traffic based on range and altitude in relation to the user’s aircraft. Appareo said the Relevant Traffic feature goes beyond simply […]

ForeFlight released its 12.4 version of the multifunctional flight planning app on May 26, 2020, with a selection of new features that bring feedback from customers into reality. Among the updates: multitasking for iPad, and global traffic (via internet) from FlightAware. New iOS multitasking allows users to run apps side by side on the display, […]

When ForeFlight was founded in 2007, it set out on one mission: Create software that makes flight planning easier. The company says, “We do it all with the aviator spirit, a sense of calculated risk-taking, and adventure,” a company culture that comes through loud and clear in the latest update of their flagship product, ForeFlight […]

Here’s a situation you’ve likely experienced: You drive 45 minutes to the airport, walk out to your airplane and start unpacking your flight bag. As you go through your normal preflight routine and organize your gear in the cockpit, you experience that sinking feeling and realize you left something behind. If you had to pick […]

Aircraft Performance Group (APG) announced the inclusion of graphical engine-out features to its iPreflight Genesis app, as well as executive appointments and new sales agreements at NBAA-BACE 2019. The app, launched in 2018, is tailor-made for business aviation, and focused on single-pilot operators and small flight departments. The iPreflight Genesis app now includes engine-out performance […]

Aircraft Performance Group has a laser focus on the segment of the market it feels it knows best: the light to midsize jet that is operated by a single pilot or crew, or a small corporate flight department. To this end, it debuted last fall its iPreFlight Genesis app, optimized for the iPad, that gives […]

It’s a change that has been a long time in coming, and thanks to the proliferation of flight-planning apps it won’t have much of a practical impact, but the FAA confirms that starting at the end of next month pilots must file IFR flight plans using the international ICAO format. The new format appears on […]

ForeFlight has added 3D flight planning tools for top-tier subscribers to its mobile flight-planning app that allow a pilot to see a digitized map of any airport and virtually fly any route before a flight or afterward as a debrief tool. ForeFlight CEO Tyson Weihs offered Flying a demonstration of the technology at the company’s […]